On lunes, 5 de diciembre de 2016 11:44:14 AM CST Dave Love wrote:
> den...@ausil.us writes:
> > Without filesystem capabilities, many things will not work. Ping as a
> > user for instance. Lots of setuid binaries switched to using
> > filesystem capabilities rather than setuid and require it to work. RPM
> > failing is the right thing to do.
> 
> I haven't actually noticed problems with that, but having root on a
> networked filesystem (be it NFS or something else) should be supported,
> and I thought it explicitly was by Red Hat.  I have a few hundred
> stateless HPC compute nodes with an NFS root, but the image is
> maintained in a chroot on the file server, i.e. a local file system.
> 
> I wonder if there's more then one problem with rpm anyway.  I've seen
> problems in the past which I'd put down to rpm's db library not working
> properly on NFS 3, but I don't remember whether I verified that it was
> the (whole) problem.

It has not been supported since we moved to using filesystem capabilities 
instead of setuid. I am not sure it was really a conscious decision. 
everything should still work when run by root. somethings will fail when run 
as a unprivileged user because permission can not be granted.

Dennis

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